Friends Visited, Family Visited, More Friends Visited

We had a lovely time with all of them

Boxing Day Duck Race

This is a lovely day out - a duck race for charity. You "buy" a duck and walk along the riverbank in Abbey Fields to see which duck wins. Lots of families and camaraderie and a good walk after the inertia of Christmas Day.

Celebrating Christmas Day

Catch Up

Since moving house in December our computer life has been a little slow hence the lack of blogging so it's time to catch up. I'm still debating about phones, laptops, notebooks, Apple etc and really could do with making a decision for business reasons but I'm still weighing it all up.

For now...a Christmas selection...


The fab cake class I went to at the Centre that we go to. Martha went into creche and I made a cake, made almond paste and then made royal icing. It was a nice switch-off time and I knew it was the only way I would get a cake made this year.



We had a fantastic meal at church with amazing entertainment and a sing-a-long. The tables were beautiful, the food wonderful and it was a lovely festive evening. Martha was great all night and we got to stay for it all which was another bonus.




Cradle Club Christmas Party - they had reindeer - it was very exciting for mummies!



Martha cried at Santa at first but then she was quite taken with him.

We moved house on 5th December and my parents moved down from Scotland on the 17th December - what a mad month it was. They sold their house after 40 years to come and live nearby us. We celebrated with a bottle of Bolly and a meal.

6 Months of Fun

Martha was 6 months old on 24th November so we commemorated the day by going to the Crazy Kiln and doing foot and hand prints onto coasters and Christmas baubles to give as presents. It was great fun - it was just the two of us and the lady in the shop (Laura) helped us and fed Martha while I painted. It's such a nice place to go...we have been back since and I plan to go again soon.

The last 6 months have been amazing!

This Rocks!

How I Came to Write an Apostolic Letter to Non-Christians in Esquire - Shane Claiborne - God's Polit

Click onto the above link and follow through to the article. It's really worth a read.

Autumn Vegetable

The veg growing this year wasn't too great. The potatoes grew successfully but I wasn't impressed with the flavour. The tomatoes failed. The yellow courgettes were good. Peas were a limited success as were some of the herbs and flowers.
For autumn I planted Jack O' Lantern pumpkin and butternut squash. Neither of these grew but 2 huge marrow-like plants did grow. At first I decided they were marrows and made chutney with the first which worked well but then the other one started turning orange...so I am unsure what this was but made lots of soup with it and served it as a roast vegetable too along with carrots...roasted with honey drizzled on top which worked well too.
Whatever it was, it was nice!